Ellen Jones
Ellen is an award-winning campaigner, writer and digital content creator whose work focuses on LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, disability rights, and feminist issues. In November, Ellen won the...
Greenbelt Reading List 2019 . . . Part 3
By now you should have seen the first two parts of this years' pre-festival reading suggestions, courtesy of our friends at Church House Bookshop who run our festival bookstore, G-Books. If you...
Searching for the young green rebels
We're teaming up with Citizens UK to offer 25 young people a unique training programme to help them take environmental action back in their schools, churches and communities after...
Ozomatli
Since its inception in 1995, innovation and creativity have defined Ozomatli. Hailing from Los Angeles, the group found a way to represent the city's eclectic culture through music that appeals to...
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Jesus invited everyone to the feast, but the Church does not open its doors equally wide to everyone. Are we getting better? What is it like to be made unwelcome by Church? How can we change things...
Speaker(s): United Reformed Church, Rachel Mann, Savi Hensman, Niall CooperTwo degrees of separation
Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, when the world committed itself to safeguarding a 'two-degree world' (not allowing global warming to rise by more than two degrees centigrade because...
Speaker(s): Natalie Bennett, Christian Aid, Most Revd Dr Winston Halapua, Mohamed Adow, Jo Musker-SherwoodTowards a New Heaven, New Earth?
Darton Longman and Todd are proud to be at Greenbelt to launch a groundbreaking new essay collection: 'Reclaiming the Common Good.'In this panel session, editor Virginia Moffatt and three of the...
Speaker(s): Simon BarrowPlace
‘Place' is back on the agenda today, with news stories being dominated by questions of local belonging and cultural identity. Andrew Rumsey's new book, ‘Parish', is a timely consideration...
Speaker(s): Andrew RumseyEnglish Pastoral
With nationalism of all kinds on the rise, what future for ‘Little England'? Might xenophobia and extremism be counteracted by a more pastoral patriotism, relocating our ‘longing for home' in...
Speaker(s): Andrew Rumsey70 Years Since Partition: The Future of the South Asian Diaspora
2017 marks 70 years since the Indian sub-continent was first divided after British colonial rule. A lot has changed since then, including in the South Asian diaspora. This conversation explores the...
Speaker(s): Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, Akanksha Mehta, Nitasha Kaul, Avaes MohammadIntroduction to Hot House: What makes for a good debate?
Looking past the 'Punch and Judy' of Westminster politics, which understandably turns us off from the idea of debate and argument, our asosiates Winchester University take us back to what good...
Speaker(s): Winchester University, Neil MesserScrap The Church?
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God, we delivered the Church. Is this what he had in mind? Does the Church do the work of God or get in its way? What are our alternatives to continuing business as...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber, Andrew Brown, Savi HensmanSexuality, Struggle and Saintliness
LGBTQ issues are a hot topic in many churches. Some believe we are following the lead of wider society as we become more inclusive, but Christians have often been pioneers willing to take on...
Speaker(s): Savi HensmanArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in conversation
Greenbelt trustee and vicar of Gogglebox Kate Bottley gets to ask her boss the questions. What's it really like being the Archbishop of Canterbury? How do you manage the stresses and strains? How...
Speaker(s): Kate BottleySimon Barrow
Simon Barrow is Director of the beliefs and ethics think Ekklesia and a member of the Iona Community. He was formerly Assistant General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and he...